17 clues for "SPIES":
- Northern ___ (apples).
- Cloak-and-dagger men.
- Mata Hari, et al.
- Secret agents
- Bond and others.
- C.I.A. employees
- Current heroes, in fact or fiction.
- Front-page figures.
- Hari et al.
- Heroes of current fiction.
- Highrisk workers
- Keeps watch.
- Mata Hari, etc.
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, for example.
- Smileys people
- Snoops.
- Some 'Bourne' film characters